The US has notched more than 3m cases of coronavirus since the pandemic began, according to a widely followed tracker of the disease.
There have been 3,009,611 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the US, John Hopkins University data revealed on Wednesday morning, or just over one-quarter of the 11.9m cases worldwide.
Data from Covid Tracking Project, which the Financial Times used for analysis, put the tally at just over 2.98m as of Tuesday evening and was expected to also cross the milestone later today given an average of about 51,000 new cases in the US are reported each day. The difference between the two sources may be primarily due to Johns Hopkins University's decision to include probable cases in its tally.